I would say there were clear pros and cons of this apt, and to me, it was not a place to enjoy my holidays.
To be fair, I will go ahead with the good points about this place:
- Good location, good price, overall clean and nicely decorated apt with two separate bedrooms
- Very quick response from the owner and actions followed by the managers. The manager guy was nice even though he could speak Mandarin only
Now the bad points:
- The bathroom was very smelly, and I had to keep the fan on 24 hours and endure the bad smell throughout my stay. The manager tried to improve it, but did not work
- Water pressure is very low, and the toilet got stuck several times under very normal situation. I called the manager and he solved the issue once, but kindly asked me to use the toilet pump when this happens again, so I had deal with it using toilet pump everyday. I even once used the public toilet on the ground floor just to stay out of the issue. Not the best thing to do during holidays.
- The owner messaged me at 2:30am notifying the air-conditioning repair will happen at 10am on the same day. The repair people visited at 10:30am. My friend and I had to go out, so I asked how long it would take, and they answered they don't know. The manager guys was there saying he will keep the apt so we could go out, but we were interrupted in the middle of when we were getting ready and found it impossible to finish getting ready with three stranger guys in the apt, and also felt unsafe to just to leave the apt like that with our laptops and luggage. I had to ask them to leave, if they cannot tell me when they can finish the repair after long debate. It was really stressful event to deal with.
- I chose this apt because they have nice swimming pool, but I could use it only with one of the manager coming along to let me in. I did not want to plan using swimming pool and to call someone to come with me to swimming pool although they reacted very fast, so I just did not use it.
All in all, this apt could have been a nice one with no toilet smell and water pressure issues, but to me, I have to say this was not the best experience at Air B&B.